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How to get the inner tags from an XML file?

I'm sitting there for quite a while now, trying to process my xml file (similar to the one below). I want to check all tags, if is equal to a variable, and if so, then running readEntry() on the tag.
I followed this example: https://developer.android.com/training/basics/network-ops/xml.html
I also found this Article(Difficulty with XML nested tags with XMLPullParser in Android deals with this topic.
I have already tried a few things but get either nothing or XmlPullParserException.
A Example of my XML:
<VpMobil>
<Kopf>
...
</Kopf>
<FreieTage>
...
</FreieTage>
<Klassen>
<Kl>
<Kurz>5</Kurz>
<Pl>
<Std>
<St>1</St>
<Fa>Fa1</Fa>
<Le>NAME</Le>
<Ra>1009</Ra>
<Nr>131</Nr>
<If/>
</Std>
<Std>
<St>2</St>
<Fa>Fa2</Fa>
<Le>NAME</Le>
<Ra>1004</Ra>
<Nr>132</Nr>
<If/>
</Std>
</Pl>
</Kl>
<Kl>
<Kurz>6</Kurz>
<Pl>
<Std>
<St>1</St>
<Fa>Fa2</Fa>
<Le>NAME</Le>
<Ra>1046</Ra>
<Nr>131</Nr>
<If/>
</Std>
<Std>
<St>2</St>
<Fa>Fa3</Fa>
<Le>NAME</Le>
<Ra>1012</Ra>
<Nr>132</Nr>
<If/>
</Std>
</Pl>
</Kl>
</Klassen>
</VpMobil>
I would be very grateful if someone could explain to me how I can achieve this. Thanks in advance

You can use Jackson library to parse XML, it is as easy as parsing Json File. this tuto will help you to figure out.
However, bescause it is is a nested xml, you will need some nested POJOs to achieve parsing.

After a few more unsuccessful attempts, I got the idea to convert the XML into a JSON (Convert XML to JSON object in Android) and continue working with it. That worked then.

Converting string to XML in android?

I am trying to convert data from database to XML in android. After that i am planning to post xml data to server using HttpPost?. But i am not sure how to convert string to xml in android.
I am looking for any sample code and methods.
Thanks in advance

Use the DOM from java library.
Refer:
http://developer.android.com/reference/javax/xml/parsers/DocumentBuilder.html#parse(java.lang.String)
http://exampledepot.com/egs/javax.xml.parsers/BasicDom.html

How to Pull an RSS Feed using XmlPullParser in Android

I'm building an RSS reader APP, and I've been told to use the XMLPullParser interface.
Here is the block of code I'm working with:
XmlResourceParser parser = context.getResources().getXml(resource);
'Resource' is a an integer with the R.id. integer of the Xml file. This is not an internal XML file, so I don't know how to work around this.
Any ideas? Is the XmlResourceParser the wrong approach for this project? I've seen XMLReaders used with content handlers as well. Can you integrate these technologies together?
Thank you

what is the type of your xml source?
xmlPullParser can be used to parse any xml sources.

It is in my opinion the way to do this. Only problem you may encounter is when the rss feed has empty lines. The xml pullparser of android (api-level 14) jumps to the /channel if this is the case. When implementing the parser try to use the AsyncTask to start the reading of the rss feed.
Success with the implementation.

calling xml to Android

I have list of records in xml format from my local host "http:localhost:810/Service1.svc/leb/GetAllCustomers"
Can I call this to android and list it in Textview or Spinner or in EditTextView or in any of the controls in android?

You should parse this xml file using SAX parse or Dom Parse in android and collect date in arrays/list/map according to your requirement here i am post some link to you get more information form there and get your ASAP.
http://www.androidpeople.com/android-xml-parsing-tutorial-using-saxparser
http://www.androidpeople.com/android-xml-parsing-tutorial-%E2%80%93-using-domparser
I hope this is very helpful to you.

Some links here for you.
1) Multithreading for Performance
to help you understand, how to download a file (example shows downloading an image) via AsyncTask.
2) Working with XML in Android
to help you parse your xml. Check these out. Good luck!

Yes you can do that.
Use Intent which takes URL as an argument.
In the URL you can mention the location/URI of your source.
Then, you can parse it to a string and store it.
Later, use ArrayAdapter to populate.
I can get you code if this is what you are trying to do.

How to encode XML on Android?

I need to encode an XML document into a format that will pass through an XML parser as a string (i.e. strip tags). I then need to decode it back again and I need to do this on Android. What is the library/class in the Android API that I'm looking for?
Thanks

XmlSerializer is probably what you want. Use it to build the "outer" XML document; you can give its text(...) method an intact XML string and it will do the escaping for you. You can do the same kind of thing with the DOM API by using setTextContent if you really want to build a DOM tree and then dump that to XML. As you appear to be aware, any XML parser will properly decode the entity references when you ask for the text back.
If you really want to write your own XML-building code, you might try pulling in the Apache commons-lang library into your project for it's StringEscapeUtils class. I'm not aware of anything that will just do the entity substitution without building real XML in the base Android API.
For an example, try this:
XmlSerializer xs = Xml.newSerializer();
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
xs.setOutput(sw);
xs.startDocument(null, null);
xs.startTag(null, "foo");
xs.text("<bar>this is some complete XML document you had around before</bar>");
xs.endTag(null, "foo");
xs.endDocument();
Log.v("XMLTest", "Generated XML = " + sw.toString());

I ended up using URLEncoder/URLDecoder, which seems to work nicely.
String encoded = URLEncoder.encode(xml);

The general Java XML Parser is the way to go.
and if you have to build it up manually you can use the XmlSerializer
edit:
Here is an article about working with xml on android, but It uses the XmlSerializer for the writing also

this question is one of the first results, when I searched the solution to this problem, so I answer here
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